‘Shame on Boeing’: Elon Musk hails Russian-made rocket engine’s design as ‘brilliant’. SpaceX founder Elon Musk praised the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine for looking awesome but said his bitter rivals Lockheed and Boeing ought to be ashamed of using it during their launches. The eccentric tech billionaire said a few nice words about the RD-180 on Twitter, while mocking his competitors at the same time. “It’s embarrassing that Boeing and Lockheed need to use a Russian engine on Atlas,” the rocket-maker wrote on Saturday “but that engine design is brilliant.”
The RD-180 was developed by NPO Energomash in the 1990s, based on an older Soviet model, RD-170. Since the early-2000s, the Colorado-based United Launch Alliance (ULA), jointly run by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has been using the engine to power the first stages of its Atlas carrier rockets, including Atlas V.
The design Musk likes so much is not its only great feature. The ULA website calls RD-180 “a powerful combination of innovation and performance.” A research paper published by the company in 2011 described it as an “efficient, reliable engine,” that was “unmatched” among its competitors and “specifically tailored” for the Atlas family.
Overall, the Russian-built engine has been used in over 75 launches across the US, including in 2011 when NASA sent the Curiosity rover to Mars. The reliance on RD-180 tech also landed the ULA in hot water as politicians grew increasingly wary of its dependence on Moscow. In 2016, Congress mandated the companies to phase out the use of the engine by 2022. rt.com/usa/447249-elon-musk-rd-180/
>oh noo we aren't leeching enough smart people from the world anymore muh operation paperclip
How about you do it yourself?
Adrian Sanders
The RD-180 is a fairly good kerosene engine. The future is in cryofuels, fission, fusion, and mass drivers, and the Russians don't have replacement rocket engineers for when their 80 year old engineers finally die.
Blake Wright
youre the fucking jew for wanting people to be divided
Alexander Lee
did she think the battery % was the fuel gauge? wtf
The based RT user is back. God bless you and may you forever keep BTFO and dabbing on butthurt amerimutts, w*sterners, poles, baltoids, fingolians and khokhols
Ackshulky the Soviets gambling on the regenerative rocket design, which ducts gasses from the pre-heater into the main combustion chamber, is why they lost the Moon Race as it delayed their progress. It is a more efficient design. Funny thing is all examples were supposed to have been destroyed but they were stashed away into a warehouse.
Anthony Clark
>youre the fucking jew for wanting people to be divided No, you're the Jew because you want the world to be together as one, using the same rocket engine in this case, rather than having competition to constantly produce a better engine. (You) are a globalist commie Jew.
Mr. Pajeet, show your flag please, because people think you are Russian.
Juan Diaz
it's true that ww2 would have been lost without Russia helping
Evan Parker
>, and the Russians don't have replacement rocket engineers for when their 80 year old engineers finally die. YOU KNOW SHIT. But that's not a surprise, you are a dumb uneducated American burger brain.
Proton-M rocket launches Russian military satellite into orbit (VIDEO) Published time: 22 Dec, 2018 23:51 A video showcasing the successful take-off of a Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a military satellite was released by state space corporation Roscosmos on Friday morning. The spectacular video shot by night shows flames towering off the side of the rocket as it slowly sheds its stands, taking off into the night in a tower of billowing smoke. The rocket was shot off at 3:20 am from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and five minutes later its upper stage separated as scheduled. The rocket was carrying a payload for the Russian Defense Ministry.
we live on planet retard and it's a constant power struggle on a massive scale and personal scale.
Zachary Richardson
So this is the power of boomers...
Nolan Sullivan
Everyone only thinks of pulsed nuclear detonation propulsion when it cones to nuclear rockets Nuclear thermal propulsion is far safer and cleaner, there already has been a great deal of research into it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
It's true that without German rocket technology neither the USSR or the US would have put men into space. It's also true that the world would be a better place had the Axis won and slayed the architects of the NWO.
Ryan Bennett
Central European countries that don't import muslims.
Julian Lopez
>German Designed Engines built in Russia Fixed that for you.
Benjamin Anderson
>rocket engines can be produced literally in the garage That dude started out with toy rocket engines already produced. You can make your own version of these simple ceramic nozzle, propellant-fueled toy rocket motors, though.
You realize that not true and all that Slavnigger did was describe and test all over Europe known primitive concepts and is just Russian revisionism to claim it as their invention much like Amerimutts claiming German engineers where not leading the research and it just so coincidentally skyrocketed when the German engineers showed them how its done?
Brandon Richardson
Maybe the idea of space rockets conflicted with Judaism somehow and this was the actual reason that Jews wanted to destroy the Russian intellectual landscape.
Joshua Campbell
>When your companies are nothing but quick profit and you act like products should be good
Michael Bailey
>The US is facing a brain drain No the US is accusing brain of being toxic incels, accusing STEM industry of lack of diversity and working on fake quotas instead of merit. If this shit continues, USA will lose all state of the art.
Germany doesn't need highly paid brain when they can and have been importing brains from peripheral euro countries for years. Which is one of the reasons apprenticeships are so valued in Germany and STEM graduates are not.
Asher Allen
Russia is rebuilding itself despite the odds.
If they manage to scape from the Jew embargo it's going to be interesting.
Hunter Sanders
even more embarrassing for your country to use them lmao.
It's not that US brains are leaving, it's that your universities are chalk full of foreigners.
Jack Wright
Elon?
Kevin Rivera
>It's not that US brains are leaving It's that they never had many to begin with.
>Elon Musk >American Case in point, he's South African. In his case, he's not going to go back to that shithole of course, but a lot of the other imports might, or they just go where the money is and that is starting to shift, or they don't like where the country is going and so on. That was always the case in history (hence why even "the arabs" had a glory period - protip: it was the one time they weren't being pisslamic shitheads), but Americans think they're special because "hurr we invented so much after WWII" (>implying it wasn't 75% kidnapped German scientists that represented the magical post-war American burst of unexplainable genius).
I seriously doubt the value of poos in doing anything but taking up scholarships and emulating tech-talk american venacular while missing all of the basic grammar, but if there are a few in the US that aren't retards, ones like them are prime examples of ones that might decide to go back to the shitting streets to try what they've learned in the US, there instead.
Mason Martin
bump
Benjamin Lee
literally the grave some though are taken by the liberal college grinder turning them into cucks thots and faggots
Liam Martin
>Case in point, he's South African. you are splitting hairs now. everybody is considering Musk as American, at least an American citizen.
Colton Walker
Reminder that we never went to the moon.
MOON LANDING NEVER HAPPENED.
That is all. Carry on.
Josiah Watson
Americans sure didn't provide solid evidence to dispute those accusations.
Logan Reyes
Exactly, American learning institutions are busy teaching about evil LGBT shit.
